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Ray's Excellent Bat Thursday, April 26, 2007 • read strip Viewing 287 comments:

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That's thoughtful, seeing as Firefox eats the end of long alt text.

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IF you have firefox you can download an extension that lets you see the entire alt text. https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&ct=res&cd=1&url=https%3A%2F%2Faddons.mozilla.org%2Ffirefox%2Faddon%2F1715&ei=p9kyRu7YM422igG3yLQP&usg=AFrqEzdySOHSvhv3m10rVhByT8TRkV8KdA&sig2=1qIxYKCWdNsaT3QNW1Utmw

I love you juancarlos.

thanks for the link. :]

That link doesn't seem to work anymore, maybe this does?

This one works better.

Yaaaay! Thanks, Charles Manson!

that's a phrase you don't hear often.

Well, this just shows poor foresight on my account. He had a Charles Manson avatar at the time. I promise.

For some reason this link no longer works. Anyone know the location of it now?

YES YES YES

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I get long text just fine. Over at Achewood.com, I see it. It's wonderful. However HERE there IS NO long text.

You know you can get a plug-in that fixes that problem entirely.

You icon frightens me. But I'm not sure why.

Attend the tale of Sweeney Todd

The burning vixen is a hungry creature.

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68 lames on one comment. Now, I'd submit that lame-ers #10-68 are themselves sort of lame. What on earth compels you to do that?

Around #10 it's like blood in the water.

Around that mark I just imagine them all going "RABBLE RABBLE RABBLE RABBLE!" and rabbling a lot. Eventually it quietens down a little, then somebody murmers "rabble" and it starts up again... Monkey see, monkey do.

This mental image made me laugh until I had trouble breathing. A rare feat.

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I sorta like Radiohead. That may or may not be connected to my opinion that using the first comment for anything other than actually commenting on the strip is: A) Sort of spammy, and B) Likely to lead to two dozen "omg first???" comments on each comic, 23 of which would be followed by "damn beat!!!"

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what happened here to KN was dang near an assetbar lynching

Bah, its all about The Cure. You know I'm right.

Oh damn , lady.

You fucked up.

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I dig it man. Holla back epicurus!

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Irony


I thought that was the point of the joke. Wasn't KN just being cutesy? I chubbied it.

Am I crazy, or is everyone else crazy? WHO KNOWS?

No it is not possible for me to not get a joke. There is no possibility of that.

You are Little Nephew, except dumber.

That poor, poor used tampon.

All he wanted was to give shout outs to his peeps.

That tampon's shoutouts would be all like

CLITS

LOVE YOU

MENSES WHERE YOU AT?

Trapped in a dachshund.

Jokes are not appreciated on assetbar, kelis_navidad. I hope you have learned your lesson.

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You made him delete his Flickr account before i could see the cute pic of his Cat. How dare youuuuu.

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hahahahaha.

Yeah, I seriously wonder how long this could last.

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SINGED.

to be fair most of those chubbies were probably given in an attempt to 'balance out' the ridiculous amount of lames you get on comments that from other people would merit neither.

(Chubbies - Lames)/(total comments) = your worth as an Assetbar user.

Asherdan, at this point in time, holds a value of roughly -4.31.

asherdan, regaining some ground here, making it back up to a -.67 Ache-worth.

Just as with publicity, there is really no attention that is completely bad.

You know what, I've been thinking about this equation and I don't think it works that well, since it basically penalizes one for making innocuous comments that get neither chubbies nor lames. I think something like a Chubby/Lame ratio would be more appropriate, though there should be some way to factor in total comments as well. Any math majors here to construct a needlessly complicated equation?

A math equation of this would be oddly satisfying. I wonder how spam posts should be factored in though, maybe a set amount of lames = 1 spam? (given that spam is inherently lame in most cases).

Spams are hard to track, though. They're not logged anywhere.

Chubbies - Lames == Popularity.
Popularity / Comments =/= Worth.
Popularity / Comments == Layman's Appeal (i.e. Lame-man's Appeal).

Worth == (Chubbies <plus> (2xLames)) / Comments.

Because all attention is good attention.

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Seems to be 39 years old, to me. You know what this means?

HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO ASHERDAN

He has a moustache.

That explains a lot. I'd probably be pretty bitter about the direction my life has taken too if I looked like that.

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Would you say the strip contains blatantly homicidal themes as well? And radical religious overtones? Such arguments can be arranged, I have a PhD in Spin.

Onstad wants to be a serial killer, of course.
Can't blame him. There is something delightfully enticing about the squelching and aroma of exposed viscera.

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I know you love to do this thing where you hastle people about what you think should/shouldn't be done with this comic you don't write/draw/contribute to on this brand new user portal/hellmouth of complaints, but I honestly think your help would be better appreciated at Wikipedia or some other site where uptight dipshits can feel like an authority on something because they watched it on the History Channel twice in a weekend.

Just a thought.

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You are a toilet seat that smokes a cigar/forever that is what you are/a toilet seat that smokes a cigar.

How huge is your ego that you think that everyone on here is wrong and you are right?

Also, the asshole comment by "untilyouaresonude" was a quote. Search it.

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Me and this Flynn fellow are two different people. You can tell because we each harbor a very particular disdain for people like you who insist they're smarter because they like Anime and they were told by their mothers that it's okay to have been born a douche.

Honestly, I wonder for a quick minute whether you're some kind of joke that Chris Onstad is playing on all of us. I mean, he can write assholes (read: Pat's Blog), and we all know he's inventive enough to make a guy he's certain we'd all hate. Either you are just Onstad's imagination giving us a nice spanking on the ass, or you are Pat incarnate: opinionated over nothing, unwilling to keep things mellow, not at all interested in celebrating the genius that is this comic...which, unlike you, I and others actually read for personal enjoyment. The only joy you seem to get is in diluting yourself into believing anyone cares what you think.

I think I'm done addressing you directly. If you're a real person, then you violate my "don't bother with internet turds" dictum that I hold myself to; if you're a joke, I don't want to persistently be the punchline.

Chris Onstad said that lame posts would be removed from the site with the next featureset update, so just leave it alone; the community will police out the assholes.

He's really just one dude with a sense of undeserved entitlement, so leave him to roil in his anger. Honestly, I expected more of Achewood fans and although I'll pop into the comments from time to time, I'm mostly soured that dudes like asherdan share a common interest with me.

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the lesson is that if you are asherdan your job is to say dicklike things and then point your finger at others and *plplplpl* when they do it back.

go bench press a boner, tinkerbell.

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wow. i have to admit, you got me to laugh, something you haven't done in the past.

Here's the thing. I don't just make assumptions about you. My opinion of you has been carefully crafted throughout time on this messageboard, observing your tendencies as a commenter and responder. My carefully crafted opinion, therefore, is this:

you are an asshole.

and that is okay.

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See, now here's what I think.
You obviously come from an unnaturally protective homestead, because you suddenly get a boner for this "freedom of speech" business. I'm also guessing that your parents are either divorced...or they're of the same gender and you're adopted. This would explain your outrageous sense of entitlement.

Or, you could just be a giant, veiny cock with nothing better to do than spout third-rate insults at half-wit commenters on a 5-star webcomic.

So did you circle back to this on a whim or did it take you a year of field research on an 'inter-webs in the wild' grant to craft that one up?

Let me know when you publish the paper. I'll pick a copy up and it can replace my TP for a day.

This whole thing is stupid, but I thought I'd way in on one point: I see a lot of people not being 'mellow' here, but Asherdan is far from the first person that comes to mind.

Scroll up, read his original comment, then read the flamestorm that ensued, and try to imagine being a normal person coming across all this without any pre-conceptions. I don't think you guys realize how ridiculous you would seem.

Ah, I see for sure why people hate you now. After reading this whole exchange, I understand. I'm still indifferent because I wasn't around for the thing originally, but even you have to admit that a lot of your combacks here were weak as all hell. Grammar error point-outs? C'mon, man.

I have to say, overall, this is probably the most disappointing story I've ever followed through on. I go through seeing all these lamed-out-of-existence comments thinking "Oh man, this guy must've douched out hardcore! He must've been spamming ads for KKK websites or some shit!". Then I get to the main of it and it turns out to be just another internet argument. What a let-down. :/

*comebacks

D'oh.

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This makes me feel a little strange. 6 people so far actually lamed Onstad? Which is five more people than just Asherdan, who we expect this sort of thing from because he enjoys being a cock to strangers?

Who actually reads a webcomic enough to have an account with which to comment on the strips, and then when they see a comment by the AUTHOR, lames it?

Keep in mind that Onstad owes you nothing, people. And posting 'FIRST! OMGWTFBBQ!' is stupid, pointless, immature, and really fucking annoying for the rest of us who don't give a shit.

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You guys familiar with the concept of GOD! I HAVE NEVER WANTED TO START A JOINT COMPANY LESS IN MY LIFE

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If it isn't modified by the content it's reacting to, I'd say it's spam. FIRST's, like advertisements, will never change no matter what strip they are in response to.

It stands for Stupid Pointless Annoying Messages. "FIRST" posts meet all these criteria, your constant badgering of Onstad regarding his sexuality meet at least two.

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i prefer the current setup that protects both your right to read the comic without comments and my right to read those available. you are not compelled to log in to the assetbar comment system. unregistered readers do not see any of these comments. this way, the board can remain visible for those who want to use it while allowing you to not be bothered.

True. I guess it just breaks my heart a little to see people say basically "I don't see why %u2018Philippe standing on%u2019 it is funny." Maybe I just wanted to assume all this time that all Achewood fans were basically me and not everybody on the whole internet in it's mediocre entirety.

I wonder what effect internet forums have on those people who choose to share their creative sides with the world. I wonder how many emotionally fucked up artists, a la jackson pollock, we have already sent into downward spirals of suicidal depression by means of fourteen year-olds wearing Eagles of Death Metal T-shirts. And to top it all off Onstad chose to host a fucking forum on his own comics, for our own benefit, so that we talk and have just have a great old time being fans, and a solid chunk of what we, as an internet community, has to say is that Onstad is gay or that he sucks. That's just shit.

Onstad I apologize for everyone who is a douche to you. You truly are beloved, and your comic is the best hands down.

douche, why you even got to do a thing?

Oh shit. I hit chubby when I meant to give you 1001 lames, on account of that popularist shit being a really REALLY bad idea.

punish him by buying lots of T-shirts. That will show him you mean business!

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The sight of a bald Elvis is new, and enticing.

It deserves a third Elvis stamp.

I am of the personal opinion that Elvis is kind of a dick. I say this because he almost ran over my dad once. My dad went on to ask Cybill Shepard to prom.
She said no.

Even bald Elvis. Wait where was I even going with those stories?
I am sorry assetbar. Signed, Shatneresque.

This is very cool. I think baseball would be much improved if everyone had a clear acrylic bat with some kind of figurine inside it.

Like one with Marilyn Monroe, and when you turn it over, her skirt lifts up

Oh no. Please don't let achewood become this (the first thing). Also, the last panel is hilarious. Rays stoned smile rules.

The bat will never get swung. 'specially if a dude is stoned. Bald Elvis all distracting everyone. It is very rare.

Please I hope there is no FIRST going on ever again when I saw it , I got the chills and then said gross out loud to no one but Elvis all bald and such , perfect and awesome

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i love to see a bat like this

Oh also , I don't know if this has been asked but are you gonna make Stoned Lightning shirts ? because that would be incredible , who doesn't want to start there own stoned slow pitch softball league now ?

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I really like how people on the message board are already using Achewood-style--or I guess specifically Roast Beef-style--speech patterns in their comments: "all ___," & "and such." I'm not being sarcastic. I really do like this...or at least identify with it, as I've found myself starting to incorporate these into everyday discussion as well. Which is, ok, maybe a little weird.

Beef is basically the archtypal geek. And what with Achewood being on the web and all, guess who reads it? I'm guessing 92-97% of Achewood's readership identifies strongly with Rost Beef.

Myself, I imagine Beef talking in sort of an impatient monotone, bereft of emotional association and wanting to get the words out as quickly as possible so he can stop talking.

I like that Idea I also talk fast. Myself, English is my second Language, so I definitely incorporate Beef's idioms into my everyday lexicon. I have also gotten a lot of people to add 'Basically' and 'Ten kinds of__'

English is my native lanuguage and I still use Beef-isms. It just kind of happens I guess.

I definitely said "oh hell and damn yes give me that thing" yesterday :/

I'm thinking more like the other way around.. People who read this strip are representative, to a degree, of those who speak or think these ways. I suppose some people who read the strip have decided, subconsciously or otherwise, to change their speech patterns when discussing the strip, but I should at least hope that that is the exception.

It seems hell of appropriate.

This premise seemed kinda thin at first. I'm now digging the arc, though. I'm not even sure it's the strip, necessarily. Just that Beef's glass bubble reminds me of the cones of silence in Maxwell Smart and the Nude Bomb . I needed to remember that.

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Man I could basically stare at that forever.

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Yeah seriously. Take it to TOUAMB, that's like all they do over there.

yikes! i was just kidding, i love achewood and i hope onstad makes a comfortable living from it and continues to do it forever, honest! let's be friends.

also, for real i want a stoned lightning shirt :)

oh man, a stoned lightning t-shirt - i am so there with dollars flapping in the cool, cool breeze. and while we're at it, the last panel of [url=https://achewood.com/index.php?date=07012003 ]this[/url] one would make a delightful t-shirt for me that i would pay money for

crap that didn't work so well. i am not an html dude by a long ways. sorry for making such a crappy comment

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look, read this, read what you wrote. if you can't find something horribly off about every sentence, just keep reading it over and over again. maybe like try looking in a mirror and reading it.

oh no way goldfish, i agree, that would be mean. like the fish in disco stu's shoes

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The best part of the strip seems to be how suave elvis stays, despite the hair removal and the stoned cat.

Also, more like "first person to declare I suck!"

Welcome to the Internet, a place where nobody expects you to know how to read or how not to type "first!" into a text-entry box. Let's all resign ourselves to these things.

Well, this is a part of the Internet reserved for Achewood. You would think people stepping these grounds would be beyond that.

...but NO.

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Oh, The Irony.

page 3 sniped. more internet rage ensues.

You convey being stoned so well using cartoon cats.

'Your stoned activities are so properly conveyed'

Oh man.
Elvis didn't die. He went on to star in Red Dwarf.

Wait a minute. Why am I a picture of large breasts? Should I change it? Can I? I do like tartan. Or is it plaid? I always get them mixed up.

That is tartan.

The breasts have my approval.

I would also like to voice my approval of breasts?

I say no changing...

"the only gay dude I'm marrying is a dumb broad with a big veiny rack"... Todd in "Bitches They Gotta Take They Cunt Pills"

i am pretty sure this is the best thing that is happening to me right now

This one is really good overall. Achewood has been through an occasional rough patch at times but very recently it has been classic and hilarious. I rate a 5.

Remember the old Thrasher magazine ads where they advertised the t-shirts that had Elvis with stink lines coming from behind him that bore the caption "Elvis Had A Stinky Butt"? How great would that have been if that's what was in Ray's bat.

Man I love it when Ray gets high. It's like he's getting stoned for all the dudes who can't, and makes me feel good. Not quite as good as being high would feel, but good nonetheless.

exACTly. there is no such thing as weed where i am so yay for cartoon cats out there tokin for guys like me and reminding me of the life i once knew

i am glad i read the comments first because this is exactly how i feel right now. somewhere out there, a cat born from the mind of a man is lighting one up for me. a good feeling.

Did anyone else read this and immediately hear an acid rock cover of the theme to "The Natural" in their head? Because I sure did.

bald elvis looks like billy corgan ( a little )

Woah. JINX!

Soon, of course, the jersey will be on sale.

Will he have the gumption to have the bat produced - and put it on sale?

yay! alt text!

Huh. Elvis without hair looks a bit like Billy Corgan

Really? I saw more of a Michael Stipe (perhaps misspelled) visage myself. You know, if he had some kind of immuno-deficiency thing but was living kinda okay with it.

I see Kryten from Red Dwarf :D

Yeah, I agree. He also kind of reminds me of Boy George, in a goofy way.

Ray should put his Damon/Affleck cut-outs in the stands, all smiling at each other. They love a good game.

Yes!

amazing

wow i like reading comments but if theres 66 already and the day just began it'll be like reading a long sad rebuttal by a suicidal columnist everyday and i just cant handle that you guys! but this strip yes it makes me feel happies

Elvis has a wig!

I forgot the important bit from the above comment: OMIGOD!

Ray should have gone with the fish. Arcade Fire had one swimming around in their bass drum when I saw them once. It was OK though because fish don't like humans.

Man, this is a fine strip. Elvis' hair goes down and I am torn as to watching him grow bald, or his hair to float gently away. So I must do the thing again. That is a fine way to spend an afternoon.

Seeing the hair of Elvis float away from him is strangely rewarding. "The rare situation of a bald Elvis" made my evening a better place.

i cannot see the alt text on this new-fangled site or the old one

using opera btw

I can see this forum thing going one of two ways


people can we make this not suck, please?

Listen, the white elephant in the middle of the internet is: how would this strip had been different had bit been Old Elvis in the bat?

the slightly agape mouth at the end really sells the strip *clap clap*

Its the subtle things like that which makes Achewood stand out from the rest. Onstad is a genius.

Hey Onstad whats the deal with alt text and this new system? I don't see alt text.

It's subtle, it's very Achewood. I'm digging it.

look at the pride on ray's face!

Anybody else have the alt text cut off using firefox?

yeah there's a plugin that fixes that here .

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@ billylk
The firefox devs know about alt text being cut off, it's a logged bug in their db, but they refuse to fix it, here's a link to one of the bugs, https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=149157

Other comic sites have the same problem, people complain but they dont do anything.
LOBBY FIREFOX, TELL THEM WE WANT OUR ALT TEXT!!! MAKE THEM LISTEN!

Again, just so it doesn't get missed... here's a plugin that fixes it.

I saw it the first time but i reply here. Dude, ten kinds of THANK YOU! my firefox achewood viewing experience will be complete now. Firefox and tight dudes in the know like you are the best.

simply stated...
you saved the day
you're a hero

You and zefiel are welcome! Also thanks for recognizing that I am a TRUE straight-up American Hero who gives little thought to my own personal safety when saving others from certain doom. I have been trying to tell people this for years.

Oh hell yes that is rad. You are a rad friend.

If you right click on the image and then select properties you can read the alt text there.

I thought it was just a bit of stubbornness, not precisely a bug, on the firefox folk's part, like bitching about how "ain't" has no place in the dictionary. Technically it's incorrect since alt text is supposed to be INSTEAD of the text when you decide not to show images, but IE started using it like the TITLE command and everyone followed suit, making it the accepted way of things. Title-text just don't sound right when remarked upon in internet forums and whatnot though.

actually these comics do all use title text instead of alt text, we just call it alt text. the "bug" as it's filed is that firefox cuts off long and multi-line title text in the tooltip.

this is too much comments

Makes me want to eat a steak to be more of a man.

A rare situation, indeed! I hope a Jimmy Stewart bat is in the works.

I think that would be glorious

Anybody know a Firefox plug-in or something so I can view long alt-texts? If so, much love.

Uh, dude, read carefully the comments on this page. Like 8 comments above this one. I hope you're joking.

Right click on the image and view properties. It's in there, under "title." You can scroll the field with your mouse or keyboard.

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Where does Ray buy an amount of dried oregano? Teodor? Little Nephew? Nightlife? That cat had a deep well of slang to draw from.

i bet showbiz is always holdin'

Téodor.


..I'm almost done with my college essay.

Ray has his sources, and his sources probably get theirs from Little Nephew.

my mom was married off by elvis. his hair was so shiny, I bet it was fake

maybe if he gets a really good hit, elvis snarls his upper lip a little bit too. bald elvis.

Give me Nightlife or give me death!

As Elvis himself said, "Don't be cruel." He'd be proud of Ray.

It's my second day of laughing hard at this comic while stoned. However, only now have I thought of a new reason for why I love it: the bald elvis reminds me of Earl from Red Meat.

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one thing i always love about chris' drawing is the subtle expressions. that "stoned look of joy" in the last frame is perfection.

ooo, sorry for the double post dogs but i just noticed there might be a "stoned lightning" tshirt?? please? me loves me "chochacho" shirt and i really want to support achewood again.

if so, sign me up for one!

This stoned ray is too stoned. Too stoned!

too stoned? i don't know if ray can ever be too stoned - he's a fucking solid cat.

i love the "hamburger eyes" on everyone. oh, and i gotta have a Stoned Lightning shirt. too cool not to have one!

i wish to see the later more festive elvis being stripped of his hair if that is at all possible. Keep it all kinds of real.

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why the hell would onstad want us to grade this shit. its asking for trouble.

Onstad said in the comments to an earlier strip that he's already working on the colored inks he wants for the logo, so yes, I'd say there'll be a shirt.

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it's no "elvis becomes a woman by sliding a dress on all sneaky" but it will do.

i want one

If you've ever been high you'll appreciate how awesome that bat really would be in real life, be it goldfish or elvis.

onstad is a marketing machine...i've seen two different awesome t-shirts in the last couple of weeks, including this one.

billyamerica
chubby post, chochacho. THX

i feel bad for elvish presley; the hair comes off, someone takes a phone pic of the ears, it's all over the net.

I am maybe thinking the first comment could be used for making a prudent statement before someone else has posted a comment. That would be a distinguished internet gimmick.

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Bald Elvis kinda looks like Michael Stipe in his beautiful-butterfly period.

his facial expressions could not be anymore perfect. <3 Onstad

Somebody should make that bat with materials lying around the garage and then show it to their Mom.

Yes I will just hollow out my current clear plastic baseball bat and fill it with water, glitter, and a painted Elvis I made out of old chili cans.

I am eagerly awaiting the Stoned Lightning t-shirt.


This comments thing really needs to die immediately, I think.

I like the thought that a bald Elvis is only a 'rare' situation. It makes me imagine that Elvis was sometimes secretly bald or that specific mystical conditions could make him bald.

Long thread is looooooooooooooong.

First Strip to have the Assetbar feature.

It shows, I guess.

If you could get this on a pen or something Mr Onstad, I would buy 1000. That is all.

This right here is all you need to see to know how this plan can de-rail.

anyways, ray seems incredibly pleased to see this rare situation

Bald Elvis looks like Sinnead O'Connor.

The kind of idea that seemed so good at the time...

I can smell the weed on this strip.


I smoked weed once, in 1994, continuously, for dang near 15 straight years.. err whats 2009-1994? Yeah 15.